Mmh. Do you find the metainfo.its file in /usr/share/gettext/its/metainfo.its after installing the appstream package? As mentioned on opensuse this required to install AppStream-devel while on debian and ubuntu this is the package appstream.
> Am 06.09.2020 um 09:22 schrieb John Darrington <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au>: > > On Sun, Sep 06, 2020 at 08:48:52AM +0200, Friedrich Beckmann wrote: > I tried this on opensuse 15.2 which has the unpatched 0.19.8.1 version. > Which version > do you use? > > I tried it with 0.19.8.1 downloaded from ftp.gnu.org > > I found that even after installing running "apt get appstream", this version > of xgettext > couldn't find it. > > I'm also concerned about how ubiquitous "appstream" is. Will people using > other distributions > (Slackware, FreeBSD ...) be able to easily install it? > > J' >
